'US using China as an excuse not to extend New START treaty' — Peter Kuznick

Amidst a pivotal moment in the push for global nuclear arms control a senior US State Department official has taken aim at China for lacking any restrictions on its arsenal.

The remarks came one day after a treaty expired, limiting American and Russian missile and warhead deployments.

Nuclear weapons policy specialist Peter Kuznick offered us a damning view of what he called 'Washington's diminishing global influence', and how picking a fight with China is an attempt to distract from its own limitations.